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Circum-
Prefix meaning around, surrounding, or encircling. As in circumcision, circumflex, and circumjacent. From the Latin preposition circum meaning round
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- Monocular diplopia See: Diplopia, monocular
- Ventricle, lateral >Lateral ventricles: The lateral ventricles are in the cerebral hemispheres, one in each hemisphere. Each…
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type II Hunter syndrome, due to deficiency of the enzyme iduronate sulfatase. See also: Mucopolysaccharidosis
- Berserk Frenzied, enraged. From the Norse berserkr, one of the old Norse warriors who worked themselves into a frenzy
- Recurrent abortion The occurrence of 3 or more miscarriages (which are medically termed 'spontaneous abortions') with no…
- Hypertonic solution A solution with a higher salt concentration than in normal cells of the body and the blood. As opposed to an…
- Cystatin 3 See: Cystatin C
- Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve syndrome See: Meralgia paresthetica
- Small for gestational age (SGA) SGA infants weigh 2500 g or less at birth and are considered to have intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR)…
- Iatrics Due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescibed. An iatrogenic disease may be…
- Disease, Legg See Legg-Calve-Perthes disease